Hij is getrouwd met Mary Trimble.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 9 oktober 1755 te Bradford Meeting, Bradford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British America, hij was toen 21 jaar oud.
Joseph Downing, youngest son of Thomas, was born in Sadsbury Twp., Chester county, PA. A photo of the old Sadsbury Quaker Meeting House is below. From "Genealogy of the Palmer-Trimble Families", page 685: "Joseph and Mary settled to the eastward of Downingtown. He became an extensive landholder and improver in the neighborhood, leaving the impress of his character on the well-improved farms that remain in possession of his descendants and others. He took an active part in the American cause during the Revolution, becoming thereby separated from the Society of Friends."
Source: http://hometown.aol.com/RDown3657/
Found: 20-Jun-2003, by David Lee Powell
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